State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; Edward Thomas Lewis, Judge. Jim Williams was found guilty of perjury. Prom an order sustaining a motion in arrest of judgment, the state appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
On Motion to Dismiss the Appeal.
BREADX, J.
The ground of the motion to dismiss is that the record contains neither bill of exception nor assignment of error.
The state, in this case, complains of the order of the trial judge which sustained a motion made in arrest of judgment.
It is true, as alleged, that there was no bill' of exception taken, and no assignment of error filed on the part of the state, hut there was a- motion in arrest of judgment filed and overruled.
The motion in arrest is confined, as to grounds, to defects of law apparent on the face of the record.
It follows that, without a…
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